ATM Machine

Crynn POV

"Is that all?" Aria asked, yeah I think that's all, but actually, I really want to check that ATM machine and see what's up. "Well, the ATM machine is new for one," I smiled and strode over in front of the gray rectangular device, it looks like any ATM machine you'd found in your bank of choice just that, this one has a bigger screen, no card swiper and definitely no buttons.

And unlike the ordinary bland interfaces ATM machines usually offer, this one is colorful and minimalistic, very nice, there's an enter button on the screen as well. I assume this is touchscreen? Aria went forward and pressed before I could even do it myself, she's the curious one, huh? A big fancy bolded font 'SHOP' appeared for 2 seconds before disappearing.

And wow, I feel like I'm looking at Amazon's e-commerce website, there's a search bar, and multiple boxes of catalogs below it and also several discount advertisements peppered around, what the hell am I looking at? It's obvious enough that this is a shop to buy daily items for daily world travelling, where's my cash at.

Oh there it is, it's on the top right, 97500 mission merits, I don't know if that's a lot but I'm wagering that that's a lot. "Okay, so there's a shop! You want to buy anything?" I looked at Aria, her eyes centered into the screen, hopefully she ain't buying luxury products, I wouldn't want 20 useless snake skin bags lying around.

[Another hard mission passed, you are good Avter and so is our newest contestant.]

The voice emerged out of no where, couldn't it just warn us ahead of time before surprising us. I shifted my attention away from the attractive ATM machine as I focused on the voice. "Here to congratulate me or is there something else?" The voice only showed itself for short amounts of time every time so it should want something or here to tell us something.

[There is something of an emergency here, we have prepared a mission for you.]

"A mission?" Aria looks intrigued and I am interested, so I do not need to pull the slot machine again? And the voice said it was an emergency, I'm sure emergency for heaven means something dire, but that's just my opinion. Well, anyway might as well hear out what the voice has to say. "What mission?"

[We've detected an energy surge in one of our sub-worlds. The problem is, the energy surge is at an all time high that shouldn't exist yet in that sub-world. Apparently, connections with the sub-world has been cut off for nearly three whole years which is a disaster on it's own. Apparently, the guy in charge of the Sub-world Watch ignored the sub-world as it is a minor one.]

[Let's just say, heads will role for it, maybe not heads but the guy's will certainly be suspended or worst fired.]

"And you are going to send us to this sub-world?" Aria questioned, I think it's already definite that yes, we will in fact be sent to investigate this disturbance. Wait a second, if it's an emergency, then, is the voice going to just shuttle us out in like 10 seconds? "Wait, when are we going to go?" Isn't it too fast?

[The both of you will be transported in a minute or so.]

Okay, a minute doesn't get much longer but if it's what it is, then we'll just have to live with it. "What kind of world are we going to go to?" Now, that one I want to know. If we could recognize the world first hand, it could provide us with some essential information and we'll also understand enough to prepare for the mission. Now it did say it was a minor sub-world so maybe it is a world I can't put a name to.

[You'll know once you get there, I won't spoil the surprise. The only thing I'm telling the both of you is that the world's quite technology more advanced then the main world but it's also much much more dangerous and messed up so to speak.]

That doesn't help, a technological world that's messed up, ehm... Mind me saying that that doesn't really tell me anything really useful. "That could be a lot, Blade Runner, Judge Dredd, Ghost in the Shell, X-Men, Maze Runner, Resident Evil, The Hunger Games? Too much selection," Aria listed off a lot of movies, I knew all of them, all of them are in world much more advanced and also much more dangerous.

[You'll see... Oh right, the shop is now officially open and throughout the entirety of the emergency mission, you'll be able to access the shop, toodles.]

Did the voice just say toodles? Who says that nowadays, anyway isn't Toodles that Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, not that I watched it. "Ok, so technological world that's messed up, got any ideas?" I asked Aria, what in our backpacks counts as technologically advanced, surely not my pistol nor my sword so it could only be Aria's new kick-ass heavy blaster pistol.

"Any advanced sci-fi world are vastly different to each other, for example, we can't prepare to go to a Pokemon world the same as going to a Digimon world or for extra emphasis, Star Trek and Star Wars. Both have the same concept but as I said again, vastly different. So I can't really suggest anything other than maybe some advanced weaponry perhaps?"

Advanced weaponry, check, let's see what type of weaponry the shop has to offer. I turned towards the ATM and scrolled down the screen to the list of catalogs. I skipped apparel and jumped right into weapons, juicy juicy weapons, delicious. Right, of course after opening the weapon catalog, another catalog showed up with a whole lot of names.

We've got laser rifles, laser pistols, gauss rifles, ion blasters, flame throwers, I'm gonna be here all day long!

{Commencing Inter-Space Teleportation. In...}

Oh come on! I swear it hasn't even reached a minute!

{3... 2... 1...}

Well, darn it. And... black once more.